At this point the game does not support mods. Once they add that ability I believe I can write some data mining mods from inside the game that will automate the process. I bet I can data mine it from the back end, but its so much easier when the program makes the API calls available to you. The advantage the in game mod can provide is location tracking when they pick something up or complete a quest.

Until the support for mods is available I will work on other related projects. One of my first ones is a talent calculator. Someone makes one for every game. This time it may as well be me.

Work has already started. I have purchased the domain name tortage.com and have a server up an going. A place holder page is in place so search engines can start indexing it. The server is a low end Linux box at the moment. When it starts to generate traffic, I plan to find a good host. I would rather save the cost of hosting it for now.

Some of you are asking why the name Tortage. Tortage is the starting are in Age of Conan. Your first 1-20 levels in AOC are spent in that area. It the place where you are introduced to the game and given the information you need to get started. That's the same idea behind the website.

*DNS setting are still getting adjusted, so its possible the site will be dark for the next few days.

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

I was working with SQL Server Reporting Services subscription and ran into this error:An internal error occurred on the report server. See the error log for more details. (rsInternalError) Get Online Help EXECUTE permission denied on object 'sp_verify_job_identifiers', database 'msdb', schema 'dbo'.

It looks like a permissions issue. After some searching on the error I found a post over at Karim's Blog with the solution. He provided the a script that adds execute permissions to several objects in the database.

Here is his script:USE masterGOGRANT EXECUTE ON master.dbo.xp_sqlagent_notify TO RSExecRoleGOGRANT EXECUTE ON master.dbo.xp_sqlagent_enum_jobs TO RSExecRoleGOGRANT EXECUTE ON master.dbo.xp_sqlagent_is_starting TO RSExecRoleGOUSE msdbGO-- Permissions for SQL Agent SP'sGRANT EXECUTE ON msdb.dbo.sp_help_category TO RSExecRoleGOGRANT EXECUTE ON msdb.dbo.sp_add_category TO RSExecRoleGOGRANT EXECUTE ON msdb.dbo.sp_add_job TO RSExecRoleGOGRANT EXECUTE ON msdb.dbo.sp_add_jobserver TO RSExecRoleGOGRANT EXECUTE ON msdb.dbo.sp_add_jobstep TO RSExecRoleGOGRANT EXECUTE ON msdb.dbo.sp_add_jobschedule TO RSExecRoleGOGRANT EXECUTE ON msdb.dbo.sp_help_job TO RSExecRoleGOGRANT EXECUTE ON msdb.dbo.sp_delete_job TO RSExecRoleGOGRANT EXECUTE ON msdb.dbo.sp_help_jobschedule TO RSExecRoleGOGRANT EXECUTE ON msdb.dbo.sp_verify_job_identifiers TO RSExecRoleGOGRANT SELECT ON msdb.dbo.sysjobs TO RSExecRoleGOGRANT SELECT ON msdb.dbo.syscategories TO RSExecRoleGO

Have you ever ...

Have you ever had a problem that is hard to search on? Some key words generate too many unrelated results. Other problems may be so basic that it’s just expected everyone will know it. I often run into problems that I expect others to have but nobody talks about it or just accepts that’s the way it is.

When I run into something that felt like it was harder to find then it should be, I will post it here. I don't have a set theme and many of my solutions are unrelated. But I hope you were able to find the solution to your problem within the pages of my blog.